Wisdom

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice a gift.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

I tell kids to pursue their hoop dreams, but I tell them to be realistic. I say, 'Aim high, but don't aim so high that you totally miss the target.'

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Make each day your masterpiece.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

You can't control what everyone else does; you can only control what you do.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

Base stealing, like runs, has to be manufactured.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

Levels of self-motivation and self-regulation are factors typically found in high achievers.

It is what we think and do at this moment that really creates the next moment.

I've had to approach things a little differently as I got older. I'm going to be 37 this year and every year that I've come to spring training, I've tried to get on the same page.